John Mortell’s blog

… Are both a lot of what occupy my mind at the moment as well as the name of another blog by one of the guys in UCC. I’m quite aware that my blogging has been pretty mediocre as of late, especially given that I’ve really only become a ‘video blog’ in the last while, but in my defence things have been quite busy at home. I ordered a new Dell laptop today. Hopefully it’ll work out ok, despite Dells insistence on having vista on the damn thing. Other than that, I’ve got some job interviews coming up, my grants situation to sort out and my Masters to get started on…. Interesting times I guess…

To try and express how disappointed I am is difficult. Yet the fact that having made the decision to go that I feel a lot happier says a lot. Frankly this week and a day that I was in Boston has been the worst of my life. Or at least feels like it now. What’s been most dissappointing has been the fact that several groups of people, some of whom I really would not have expected it of, have abandoned me when I really needed help. One of them, getting a call from me that I could not have sounded good during, responded with ‘I really need my sleep’ … Others, in their attitude have given me the response of ‘hope that homeless thing goes well for you’… While some people have suggested travelling, to be honest, I really am just so sick and tired after this week that I don’t think I could even enjoy it. I hope, that by going tomorrow, I can use the money I have to come back some other time…

Boston’s been a bit of a disaster, currently unemployed and homeless. can’t travel easily either. anyone know anything that could help get in touch please!

Currently in Boston. If you want to contact me use my bebo/facebook. Unsurprisingly enough,given that this is the plan for the next 3months, expect blogging to be intermittent.

Having been suffering from senioritis myself, I can appreciate his position.

Just lately, I’ve been finding that my sense of time is completely shot. Not in the sense of taking longer to do things than I thought, but that from hour to hour, day to day & week to week I just seem to be doing a lot more. For example, the UCC rag week was only about 3 weeks ago. It feels like it was at least two months ago, I have seen friends in the last two weeks but it felt like a lot longer since I’d seen them. Do other people get this?

Yet another UCC student from my politics class joins the blogsphere. Donal, one of the lads in my history and politics classes. Go take a look

My damn laptop just died. It seems to be a problem relating to the WindowsXP but to be honest, I’m not sure. All I know is that I count myself lucky to have gotten the two essays I have due this week onto the fucking usb key I have. It took me a week to get the computer up and running the last time I wiped it. Especially as half the drivers that I needed weren’t on the disks. Which means I’m stuck in UCC and it’s library. Which is a problem for several reasons:

1) There aren’t enough computers. It took me ten minutes of wandering around to get one and that was dumb luck. Christ knows how bad it is when its not Sunday
2) The baldy fucker beside me keeps giving me dirty looks. That might be because I am in such a black mood that it’s noticable. Or it could just be that like me, he hates having other people around him when he’s trying to work. Either way,he’d best watch himself or he’ll be punched. Repeatedly.
3) I can no longer listen to music loudly/drink/eat/wander around in my underwear as I work. This offends me greatly.
4) The sun is in my eyes

Anyway,I have two fucking essays that need writing. Fuck.

Right, It occurred to me that I probably have to start looking into what I’m doing after the summer so… At the moment I’m just looking around but I have it in my head that I *want* to do a postgrad in International Relations of some sort… I’m looking at the UK as being the most likely place for this but if people want to recommend anywhere, they’d be very welcome to…

Different courses in Bristol that seem likely may include the following.. People have any horror/great/happy/*OMG this is such a good degree* stories they want to share with me?